She has just given birth in a steel cage in a local, and very full shelter, and now her and her small family’s future is uncertain unless a foster can be found.
A shelter animal ambassador/volunteer posted the picture below on social media and said:

“People seeking to make a change in the world. This sweet mom gave birth at Halifax Humane Society. She had her paws wrapped around her babies showing her love and desire to protect. They need a foster. Can you love and care for them for 8 weeks with the support of Halifax Humane Society staff with the knowledge they will be adopted?”

Sweet mom, who has been named ‘Hope’ by the volunteer trying to help her, just needs a safe home to hang out for few weeks until her kittens are old enough to go up for adoption. Halifax Humane Society will support the foster home with anything they need to help this cat.

If you think you can be the champion that makes a difference for this cat and her 4 kittens, there will be a foster orientation (new fosters would need to complete the orientation) at Halifax Humane Society this Saturday at 1pm (all are welcome) where you can go along and learn what you would have to do to help. The good news is that mom cats are VERY good parents and that means really you would just need to give this family a safe place to hang out for a few weeks until the kittens get big enough to go up for adoption, mom cat will do most of the work!

As we head into full blown kitten season there will be many, many, more cat families like this one in need of foster homes. The reason is, that due to the high volumes of cats being dropped off at the shelter, space is limited. There are not enough resources to house all of the pregnant, or small litters of kittens for weeks on end until the kittens are big enough for adoption, so they need to go to fosters homes to ensure that there are open cages for the other cats who are being dropped off. Our local community needs to step up and take responsibility for our animals. Dropping an animal off at a shelter should be a last resort after all other options have been explored. Please get your cats fixed as not doing so is what has lead to the population explosion of unwanted cats and kittens and ultimately, sadly, there are not enough homes for all of them and this is why literally millions of healthy, adoptable, cats and kittens are being euthanized at shelters across the United States every year.